Congratulations! The Jenkins project officially went over the 100K active users mark sometime in January. As of January 31, we were at 102,992. YOU are one of the 100K active users! As discussed on a couple recent project meetings, we have designated February 26 as Jenkins Celebration Day. To make some noise, here is what we are doing starting NOW: Write a blog about anything related to...

In tomorrow’s Jenkins office hours, Jesse Glick will talk about two topics in the workflow plugin that he has been asked about: Security model: script security, permissions Plugin compatibility: SimpleBuildStep and friends, custom steps, etc. The session should be interesting to anyone using workflow or thinking about using workflow. Jesse is one of the top contributors in the community, so it’d be definitely worth your time!...

+ The Jenkins User Conference 2015 is seeking submissions that reflect the latest innovations in Jenkins usage. This is your chance to educate, share and inspire the community with stories of how you’ve used Jenkins to continuously build that amazing project or how you developed that popular plugin that everyone is using. If you’re gamed, here are some suggestions to get your creative juice going: Scaling Jenkins...

A lot of us has grown fond of our loyal butler Mr.Jenkins over time, which was created by Frontside and chosen as a result of a logo contest. In the true open-source style, the logo has since evolved into many different derivative works, such as a plugin, a 3D model, and a bobble head. Our friends at CloudBees are running a #BreakingBuilds social media contest...

Jenkins started with a notion of jobs and builds at heart. One script is one job, and as you repeatedly execute jobs, it creates builds as records. As the use case of Jenkins gets more sophisticated, people started combining jobs to orchestrate ever more complex activities. A number of plugins have been developed to enable all sorts of different ways to compose jobs, and many...

Jenkins User Conference in Bay Area is this Thursday, and one of the new things this year is the mobile app. + There’s an Android version as well as an iPhone version. I’ve installed it locally, and it’s very handy for checking the agenda, get more info about speakers and sponsors....

This is a guest post by Craig Rodrigues The FreeBSD project produces a modern operating system derived from BSD Unix. In the past 6 months, we have set up Jenkins at https://jenkins.freebsd.org/, to continuously build FreeBSD as developers add new code to the project. This has helped us identify and fix build breaks very quickly. We have gone even farther by integrating Jenkins, Kyua, and Bhyve. Kyua is a...

Another day, another SSL vulnerability! Google has announced a vulnerability in SSL v3, and if you are using the "Winstone" servlet container built into Jenkins, and if you are using the HTTPS connector with the --httpsPort option (it is off by default), then you are vulnerable to this problem. I’ve just issued a security advisory on this. If you haven’t already subscribed to the Jenkins...